It had to happen, in the face of rising prices for conventional foods and the resultant need for the average consumer to source alternative food sources. But I still can’t get my head around eating insects. i know. they’re just tiny little animals, not unlike cows and pigs and sheep,Read More →
Consumers have been changing their food shopping habits over the past year or so, since Meat and Produce prices went sky high. That’s been hard on supermarket proprietors who’ve seen profits decline as folks buy less Meat and cheaper brands of everything else. What to do?Read More →
There’s a new consumer demographic in play these days. It goes by yet another catchy moniker. You’ve heard of the Boomers, the Gen-Xers, the Gen-Yers and the Millenniels. They all have their own peculiar likes and dislikes. But now there’s a new challenge for marketers: the YEMMies…Read More →
Here’s a question for everyone who uses services provided directly by people – restaurant cooks or servers, doctors, nurses, dentists, physical therapists and so on. How would you react if someone in personal contact with you or your food was found to be HIV positive? McD’s panicked…Read More →
You’d think that, with Brexit and all, the Brits would have more important things to tweet and post on Facebook about. But, NO! A recent tweet protesting the grossly irregular sizes and shapes of one man’s bag of Carrot Sticks has taken the Internet by storm. Foodies take note!Read More →
It’s Calgary Stampede time and one thing that I always look up is – what kind of crazy fair Foods they’re selling this year. And, here – I thought what they came up with last year was the Menu Madness Be-All-And-End-All. Not a chance! And I’d have been disappointed otherwise…Read More →
I saw a post somewhere on the Net this morning about what foods not to eat at bedtime, if you want a good, sound night’s sleep. The author cited good solid scientific evidence to support his claim, but I thought he left some important items off his list of late night evils… Read More →
The result is in! And it’s an upset victory for the former champ at the 2016 Nathan’s Famous Coney Island July 4 Hot Dog Eating Contest. It’s also a new record for the champ and a big upset for fans of last year’s champ who many favoured to repeat the feat this year. Here’s how it went down…Read More →